One of the Mattel founders was Elliot Handler and his wife was later president of the company - their kids were named Kenneth and Barbara. Wiki - He married Ruth Moskowicz and they had a daughter, Barbara who is the namesake of Barbie dolls and a son, Ken (who died of a brain tumor in 1994) who was the namesake of Ken dolls.[4] The Handlers had made a tradition of naming their toys after family members and when Barbara Handler married Allan Segal, they came out with Allan, Ken's buddy. The 1965 talking doll Baby Cheryl was named after the Handler's first grandchild, and the Todd doll in the Barbie line was named for their grandson. [5][6] Rumour has it that Ruth had an illegitimate child after an affair with one of the Hassenfield brothers who founded Hasbro - the child was kept a secret and given up for adoption, but it was later revealed that the child was actually a boy named Joseph (or Joe) who was drafted into the US military, General Infantry Division. Sadly he was killed in action at the battle of the backyard, whilst single-handedly trying to disarm a division of assorted rubber dinosaurs. After his death, and in an attempt to come to terms with her infidelity and the shame of not acknowledging her son's existence during his lifetime - Ruth decided to ask Hasbro to release the GI Joe doll. There is no truth however in the rumours that she had another affair with a British toy entrepreneur, that also spawned a son who was horribly disfigured with 'eagle-eyes', 'gripping-hands' and a facial disfigurement that left a large realistic scar on his right cheek.
Blue-eyed people tend to have a higher alcohol tolerance than those with darker eyes. (That explains a lot from my point of view) 1 in 10 men are officially psychopaths. The Death Star from Star Wars would cost around $852,000,000,000,000,000 if people tried to build it in the real world.
Coincidentally that's the same amount my lego death star ended up costing me after I used a payday loan to buy it.
Talking of Death Stars. The matter in the centre of a black hole is so dense that one tea spoon of it would weigh the same as planet Earth. How the **** they've worked that out is beyond me, personally I think whoever came out with that so called fact has just made it up to look clever. Well I'm not buying it.
Any **** can come out with all this astro physics nonsense because nobody can prove them wrong. I might write to the National Scientific magazine with the findings of my research, which in namely thus; The centre of a black hole is pretty dense but it if you ever found yourself there you wouldn't notice. That's because you'd be too gob smacked looking at the two Japanese dwarves who live there(in a giant tea pot) rimming each other out. How could they prove me wrong eh? Fact is they couldn't. My theory is just as credible as the whole teas spoon bollocks.
Any **** can come out with all this astro physics nonsense because nobody can prove them wrong. I might write to the National Scientific magazine with the findings of my research, which in namely thus; The centre of a black hole is pretty dense but it if you ever found yourself there you wouldn't notice. That's because you'd be too gob smacked looking at the two Japanese dwarves who live there(in a giant tea pot) rimming each other out. How could they prove me wrong eh? Fact is they couldn't. My theory is just as credible as the whole tea spoon bollocks.
Similar theme, Switzerland's navy is the biggest in the world to be operated by a completely landlocked country.
It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the host’s glass with his own. Cheers.
